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After what amounted to a daylong outage across the globe, all PlayStation Network services are now back up and running. Sony confirmed as much in a mea culpa posted to X/Twitter from its official Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) account, but both the explanation for the outage and the compensation offered have left... Read more...
Since the TikTok ban took effect, the app has been removed from the Google Play and App Stores and has stayed unavailable despite the executive order delaying the ban. In response, TikTok has created an alternative that allows Android users to download the app directly from its website. But how can you install this on your device? We'll explain. In Read more...
Specifications for Intel's next-gen mobile processors might have just surfaced in a new leak from leaker Jaykihn, a reasonably well-regarded source for Intel leaks. While unconfirmed, the details give us a possible look at what's coming with Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake, two upcoming CPU families that will form the bulk of Intel's mobile Read more...
The severe shortage of GeForce RTX 5080 and especially GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards has NVIDIA's retail and hardware partners experimenting with ways to get a limited number of gaming GPUs into the hands of actual gamers. We saw this with Newegg, which implemented a quirky email lottery system, and now Zotac is... Read more...
Malware on iPhones and Android devices is often associated with downloading third-party apps from unofficial sources. Cybercriminals, however, are also able to hide malware within apps found at official sources, like the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. These pieces of malware are often designed to target... Read more...
To be honest, almost everything we've seen about the Switch 2 seems to imply that it will simply be the Switch, except more. A slightly larger screen, a more powerful SoC, and other incremental upgrades are certainly welcome (particularly in light of the official confirmation that it will be backward-compatible), but... Read more...
Larian Studios has been hard at work on the massive Patch 8 for Baldur’s Gate 3, which is bringing big enough changes to warrant an update of its own. The update will bring fixes to gameplay, the newly implemented Photo Mode, and several other elements of the game. One of the more consequential gameplay fixes takes... Read more...
With the first (and still only) official Grand Theft Auto VI trailer sitting pretty with nearly 239 million views, 12 million 'likes', and nearly a million comments, it could be argued that the next GTA installment is not only the most anticipated game of 2025, but perhaps even of all time. That's a separate topic... Read more...
You may have noticed that NVIDIA's newest graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080, are nearly impossible to find in stock. In the wake of what looks like a severe shortage (which has people dubbing this a paper launch), you may have also noticed that NVIDIA's hardware partners have issued a round of... Read more...
No one would blame you if you didn't realize that the entity behind the defunct E3 gaming expo—Entertainment Software Association, or ESA—still exists. The group is back with a new gaming event, but it's not what you might expect. Called "iicon" or Interactive Innovation Conference, this event isn't open to the public... Read more...
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series products were announced at CES 2025, including the various mobile SKUs. While the desktop GPUs have already launched to the public, we're awaiting the laptop variants to release to retail. A new leak gives us some possible performance data to crunch through for one such laptop packing... Read more...
We're about a month removed from the most recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) event in Las Vegas, where Acer made a splash with a bunch of product announcements. Apparently it had even more on tap. Announced today, Acer is expanding its Predator Helios Neo lineup with a couple of brand new gaming laptop lines... Read more...
Google has made a significant advancement in the realm of AI agents as of late. Last December, the tech giant launched an experimental version of its Gemini 2.0 model to developers, but in its latest move, Google has made Gemini 2.0, its most powerful suite of AI models, available to the general public. In a blog... Read more...
Even as EA is working on ways to revive Battlefield, it hasn’t forgotten it has a successful competitive multiplayer experience with Apex Legends. The development team released its first blog post of the year detailing some of the improvements players can expect. Specifically, when it comes to combatting cheaters... Read more...
Last December, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT was available on WhatsApp, which allowed users to chat with the AI language model without needing a browser or a mobile app. However, this upgrade had limitations—WhatsApp ChatGPT users couldn't send images or voice notes to communicate with ChatGPT, for example. Yesterday... Read more...
Qualcomm's latest earnings report is out, and the company is riding high on strong handset, automotive and laptop platform revenue numbers. For Q1 of FY2025, Qualcomm posted revenue of $11.7 billion, up 14% quarter-over-quarter and 18% year-over-year. Handsets led the charge with $7.6 billion in revenue, a 24%... Read more...
The launch of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs has been interesting to say the least. And we're not just talking about the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 and its 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM. The performance uplift offered by the new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, disregarging new technologies like multi-frame gen, left some... Read more...
2024 was apparently good to Ferrari. It made strong profits and momentum nearly across the board, which has given the famed car brand the confidence to not just launch several new vehicles this year, but reveal its first ever EV. Some of the new models are expected to be an SF90 Stradale successor and a track-focused... Read more...
If you've seen photos of the far side of the moon, specifically of two long canyons within what is called the Schrödinger basin and wondered what created them, look no further—researches have determined that ejecta from an ancient asteroid strike carved out the grand canyons (Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck) in... Read more...
Watching the Super Bowl on a big screen TV is one thing, and bonus points if you're going to catch the game on an OLED or mini LED model. Even better? Kicking back and watching football (or anything, really) in a high-tech massage chair with heating, cooling, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Massage chairs aren't... Read more...
ASUS is coming in early with the Zenfone 12 Ultra premium flagship phone. Previous Ultras were traditionally launched in summer, but alas here we are with some nice upgrades, including camera sensors, a gimbal stabilizer, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, plus AI this and AI that. Two downers though: firstly... Read more...
So far, Nintendo has only offered a few bread crumbs in relation to its upcoming and highly-anticipated Switch 2 handheld game console. We know it exists and that it will sport a larger display and retooled Joy-Con controllers, but there's still a lot that we don't know about it. That's going to change in a couple of... Read more...
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